392 CHRONICLE OF THE NOTES. been among the last of the marauding expeditions of the Northmen. The Saxon Chronicle ends about this year, and does not mention it ; but in the tumults and domestic warfare at the end of King Stephen's reign, it might have been overlooked among the calamities of the year. 1155. King Sigurd was slain by his brother Inge at Bergen. 1156. Swerrer, who was afterwards king, was taken by his mother to the Feroe Islands. Magnus, the son of Christina, a daughter of Sigurd the Crusader by Erling Skakke, and who in right of his mother was made king on the death of Hakon Herdabreid, was born. 1157. King Ey stein was defeated, and put to death by order of Kino; Inge his brother. Hakon Herdabreid was proclaimed king by the followers of King Eystein. 1161. Gregorius, the step-father of King Inge, was killed in a conflict with Hakon's troops. In the same winter King Inge was defeated and killed in a battle on the ice at Opslo. The followers of Inge took Magnus the son of a lenderman, Erling Skakke, and of Christina the daughter of Sigurd the Crusader, as king. Hakon, however, drove Erling and his son out of Norway. 1162. Erling, coming suddenly on King Hakon in Steinavog, defeated and slew him; and Magnus, the son of Erling, was sole king of Norway. 1164. Magnus Erlingsson was anointed and consecrated king of Norway, being then eight years of age, by Stephen the legate of the pope, and was the first king who had been crowned with that ceremony. 1172. Harald, a son of Christina, the mother of King Magnus Erlingsson by King Sigurd, was taken and executed at Bergen by order of Erling. Christina, the wife of Erling, and mother of King Magnus, left her husband and went to Constantinople, where she died in 1178. 1173. Eystein, who gave himself out for a son of King Eystein Haraldsson, made his appearance with a troop, who were called Birkebeiners from the poverty
